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There are many websites throughout the world offering advice for bowlers of any standard. Type 'Lawn Bowls Coaching' into your search engine and you will be surprised at the number of hits. Here are a few that have caught my eye with links directly to the sites.
But first and most important the Laws of the Sport of Bowls Crystal Mark Edition, for viewing only:- World Bowls and here:- Bowls New Zealand - look under Clubs / Administration.
Coaching Etiquette Psychology	Rob Judson (Queensland, Australia) - Lawn Bowls Coaching A superb ebook that covers every aspect of the game. A permitted copy may be downloaded from this brilliant Scottish site:- Vale of Leven. Downloading the 2.7Mb PDF file launches Acrobat which doesn't indicate its busy. For those with dial up connections it will seem nothing happens for a few minutes so you can download the individual chapters that Rob had made available:- Accuracy, Aiming, Biomechanics, Coaching, Delivery, Fitness, Mechanics, Practice, Psychology & Tactics. Bowlers of any standard wishing to improve will benefit from reading his work. Oxnard-Joslyn Lawn Bowls Club's The Game of Lawn Bowling page also has the collection along with these other articles I had been trying to locate:- Professor Brearley's A Mathematician's view of Bowling. Royal Queensland Bowls Association Coaching Manual and Etiquette
	Lawn Bowls International host a column by:- Lachlan Tighe
	Look in Royal New South Wales Bowling Association's Reference Library for Purposeful Practise Routines and Angles of the Green.
	Henselite's documents on:- Etiquette of Bowls, Etiquette of Marking in Lawn Bowls, Romance of Bowls Manufacture
	An introduction, extracts from the book by David Bryant and Tony Allcock Bowl to Win
	Macka Jensen runs this site containing many useful articles:- Performance Lawn Bowls
	And many more links at this site:- The Virtual Library of Sport
Health & Safety	Monash University produced a pamphlet entitled Preventing Lawn Bowls Injuries based on the findings of a report called Rolling Injuries out of Lawn Bowls The Better Health Channel have this and lots more in their factsheets A-Z. (Look for Lawn Bowls under L in Factsheets A=Z).
Time & Motion	Ever wondered where the time went playing a game of bowls? The Journal of Sports Science and Medicine produced a study entitled:- Resting Toucher - Analysis of Elite Lawn Bowls